Maidenhead in context: Street-network sprawl trends

The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Maidenhead plotted against England and United Kingdom. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Maidenhead's incremental SNDi fell from 5.39 to 4.56 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Maidenhead ranked 96th out of 124 cities in England and 107th out of 143 in United Kingdom as of 2020.

Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.

What about similarly populated cities?

• Kanata, Canada
• Taeryonggang, North Korea
• Yushu, China
• Sumberpucung, Indonesia
• Chợ Mới, Vietnam
• Qingcheng, China

In new street additions, Maidenhead built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved, while Kanata built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved and Sumberpucung built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full network, Maidenhead and Sumberpucung both became progressively more disconnected, while Kanata grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Maidenhead and Sumberpucung have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.